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The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.
“应该做什么”从来就不存在，但人们一直在努力实现它。没有“应该是什么”，只有“是什么”。
— Lenny Bruce 布鲁斯
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更多好句 ↗It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
希望所有人都一样高兴是徒劳的。让一个人站在他想要的方向上，他一定要背对半个世界。
George D. Prentice
乔治D.普伦蒂斯
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
为了个人利益而故意弄虚作假是学者或艺术家在工作或生活中所能达到的最后、最糟糕的深度。
Dorothy L. Sayers
塞耶斯
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
语言是人们思考的方式。当你误用词语时，你就会降低清晰而真实地思考的能力。
Margaret Heffernan
玛格丽特·赫弗南
Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
有时候做对的事情是出于错误的原因，有时候，不幸的是，错误的事情是出于正确的原因。
Chester James Carville Jr.
切斯特·詹姆斯·卡维尔
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
一个新词就像一颗新鲜的种子撒在讨论的土地上。
Ludwig Wittgenstein
路德维希·维特根斯坦
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
对于一个诗人来说，仅仅写一首诗似乎就能解决真理的问题，但只有艺术的问题才能在诗歌中得到解决。
Laura Riding
劳拉·瑞定